Second half-yearly report ... from 1st March to 1st September, 1849 / [by James Esdaile, with a letter from him to J. Elliotson] ... to which is added, remarks on the conduct of the English medical journalists ... in refernce to [mesmerism] ... By Dr. Elliotson.

  • Mesmeric Hospital (Calcutta, India)
Date:
1850
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Credit: Second half-yearly report ... from 1st March to 1st September, 1849 / [by James Esdaile, with a letter from him to J. Elliotson] ... to which is added, remarks on the conduct of the English medical journalists ... in refernce to [mesmerism] ... By Dr. Elliotson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This is a sad business as regards Dr. Sharkey and the editor of the Gazette, and proves how eagerly assertions are made against mesmerism without any ground. Without the slightest reason hundreds of medical men are now telling patients that mesmerism causes, perhaps at the distance of years, insanity, fits, &c., &c. And the editor of the Medical Gazette de- clares that no one reads The Zoist but the impostors who publish their cases in it.* * No. X., p. 201. FINIS. Walton and Mitchell, Printers, 24, Wardoiir-street, Londoss.